Re: Creating a dictionary from a .txt file

2013-04-01 Thread C.T.
Thanks for all the help everyone! After I manually edited the txt file, this is what I came up with: car_dict = {} car_file = open('cars.txt', 'r') for line in car_file: temp = line.strip().split(None, 2) temp2 = line.strip().split('\t') if len(temp)==3: year,

Re: Creating a dictionary from a .txt file

2013-03-31 Thread C.T.
On Sunday, March 31, 2013 12:38:56 PM UTC-4, Roy Smith wrote: > In article , > > "C.T." wrote: > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > I'm currently working on a homework problem that requires me to create a > > > dictiona

Re: Creating a dictionary from a .txt file

2013-03-31 Thread C.T.
On Sunday, March 31, 2013 12:06:18 PM UTC-4, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 2:52 AM, C.T. > > > After playing around with the code, I came up with the following code to > > get everything into a list: > > > > > > d=[] > > > car_file

Re: Creating a dictionary from a .txt file

2013-03-31 Thread C.T.
On Sunday, March 31, 2013 12:20:25 PM UTC-4, zipher wrote: > Every line is now an element in list d. The question I have now is how can I > make a dictionary out of the list d with the car manufacturer as the key and > a tuple containing the year and the model should be the key's value. Here is

Creating a dictionary from a .txt file

2013-03-31 Thread C.T.
Hello, I'm currently working on a homework problem that requires me to create a dictionary from a .txt file that contains some of the worst cars ever made. The file looks something like this: 1958 MGA Twin Cam 1958 Zunndapp Janus 1961 Amphicar 1961 Corvair 1966 Peel Trident 1970 AMC Gremlin 197

CSV, lists, and functions

2013-03-19 Thread C.T.
Hello, Currently doing a project for class an I'm stuck. I have a csv file that I'm suppose to extract some information from. I've created a function that ignores the first six lines of the csv file and creates a list of values in a particular column. Here is the code: def get_values(file, in